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784 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
JOHN COTTON.
(P. 416.)
We find the following statements in connexion with the life of Mr. Cotton:Samuel Winter, D.D., afterwards Provost of Trinity College, Dublin; after he
left Cambridge, went to Boston in Lincolnshire, where he lived under the ministry
of the learned John Cotton; out of whose family, after some time, he married
Mrs. Anne Beeston (Bestoe), a gentlewoman of good extraction, and one that had a
considerable portion; the match being one of Mr. Cotton's contrivance. After his
marriage, and some continuance with his wife, in Mr. Cotton's family, he applied
himself to the work of the ministry, and removed to a small living at Woodbarrow,
near Nottingham, and from thence to Cottingham, near Hull, where his wife died,
leaving him with five sons. He then married Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver, and, in
1650, he went to Ireland; he died at South la Henham (?), in the county of Rutland, Dec. 29, 1666.-MIDDLETO N's Biog. Evangelica, vol. iii. p. 395.
(P. 421.)
Robert Baily, minister at Glasgow, was an earnest theological opponent of
Mr. Cotton, and in the preface (page 2) to his Defensive from the Errors of the
Times, published in 4to., 1655, says, " I do not deny, that Mr. Cotton hath, and
ever hath had, since first I heard of his way, so high an estimation in my mind, that
I do prefer him to all my opposites (opponents), and heartily wish all differences
between him and me were so fairly composed, that with him I might stand no more
in terms of any considerable opposition."
Mr. Baily further says, at page 18, " Mr. Cotton's first letter from New England
to his friends at Boston was'to separate from the congregation there, not from
their errors alone, but even from their sacraments and public prayers,' which he
acknowledges himself had never done."
Rev. SAMUEL WHITING.
(P. 430.)
In 1649, OLIVrER CROM~WELL applied to New England to send missionaries to
Ireland. A reply was given to this application, dated 31st (10th month) March,
1650, by "' certain ministers and others," in which they ask for further information,
"' hoping, that as we came by a call of God to serve him here; so, if the Lord's mind
shall clearly appear to give us a sufficient call and encouragement to remove to
Ireland, to serve the Lord Jesus there, we shall cheerfully and thankfully embrace
the same."
(Signed) Peter Bulkley, Minister.
Samuel Whiting, Minister.
John Knowles, Minister.
Thomas Cobet, Minister.
Daniel Denyson.
John Tuttill.
It isnot known whether any persons from New England settled in Ireland in consequence of Cromwell's proposals.-ELLIS'S Letters, Second Series, vol. iii. pp. 360, &c.